free verse Archives - The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org/tag/free-verse/ Literary Arts Journal Tue, 09 May 2023 17:43:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/hyacinthreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-Hyacinth-H-Favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 free verse Archives - The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org/tag/free-verse/ 32 32 199531397 Heritage https://hyacinthreview.org/r-b-simon-heritage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=r-b-simon-heritage Wed, 28 Jun 2023 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=4673 Originally published in The Good Truth, © 2021 Finishing Line Press

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]]> 4673 Wollemia https://hyacinthreview.org/jennifer-harrison-wollemia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jennifer-harrison-wollemia Wed, 31 May 2023 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=4594 The post Wollemia appeared first on The Hyacinth Review.

]]> 4594 Flowers Off Her Tongue https://hyacinthreview.org/alison-heron-hruby-flowers-off-her-tongue/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alison-heron-hruby-flowers-off-her-tongue Tue, 30 May 2023 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=4589 The post Flowers Off Her Tongue appeared first on The Hyacinth Review.

]]> 4589 Steppe Classics https://hyacinthreview.org/dilara-sumbul-steppe-classics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dilara-sumbul-steppe-classics Sun, 28 May 2023 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=4582 The post Steppe Classics appeared first on The Hyacinth Review.

]]> 4582 Mother’s Eyes https://hyacinthreview.org/lisa-mary-armstrong-mothers-eyes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lisa-mary-armstrong-mothers-eyes Thu, 18 May 2023 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=4552 The post Mother’s Eyes appeared first on The Hyacinth Review.

]]> 4552 Anne https://hyacinthreview.org/melissa-strilecki-anne/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=melissa-strilecki-anne Wed, 10 May 2023 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=4519 The post Anne appeared first on The Hyacinth Review.

]]> 4519 Petrochelidon pyrrhonota https://hyacinthreview.org/john-rodzvilla-petrochelidon-pyrrhonota/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=john-rodzvilla-petrochelidon-pyrrhonota Wed, 28 Dec 2022 04:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=3687 The post Petrochelidon pyrrhonota appeared first on The Hyacinth Review.

]]> 3687 On the first day of spring, you became light, https://hyacinthreview.org/daniela-sow-on-the-first-day-of-spring-you-became-light/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=daniela-sow-on-the-first-day-of-spring-you-became-light Thu, 22 Dec 2022 04:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=3678 free from body and pulse. You suffered no longer— no more collapsing lungs, yellowing nails and tongue, sunken cheeks. The furnace fires up around your withering body, brittle bones now ash. In the car, I carry the box of you, small, compact, grasping you in my lap, oh, how once I was a child in…

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]]> 3678 Long Porch Down https://hyacinthreview.org/l-ward-abel-long-porch-down/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=l-ward-abel-long-porch-down Wed, 21 Dec 2022 04:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=3673 Long porch down tilts to the black river warm half-sea with dead tree fronds mangrove, cypress old wood no nails could ever pierce, painted now by water to keep hands from ever trying. After all we are corrupted enough to be mortal for a blink, then to succumb. While the oil-colored flow— its volume— has…

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]]> 3673 St. Agnes https://hyacinthreview.org/magdalena-harlow-st-agnes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magdalena-harlow-st-agnes Mon, 19 Dec 2022 04:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=3662 Was led out and bound to a stake, but the bundle of wood would not burn, or the flames parted away from her, whereupon the officer in charge of the troops drew his sword and beheaded her, or, in some other texts, stabbed her in the throat.

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